CAEX - Music on the Brain

Anyone who found the text on music and the brain interesting (or anyone wh0's interested in this) might like to listen to one or both of these 'All in the Mind' programmes from Radio Australia's ABC Radio National.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/index/subjects_Music_2011.htm

The two programmes are:

The precipice of creativity: the improvising mind

16/07/2011
Whether it's choosing words to make up a sentence or walking along a crowded street, we're all capable of improvising. But musical improvisation fills us with amazement. How do musicians make the moment-by-moment decisions to create spontaneous music that's more than noise -- and what's going on in their brains to make it all happen?

Fear, brains and rock'n'roll: meet Joe LeDoux

02/04/2011
Rock star by night, neuroscientist by day—Joseph LeDoux's research has redefined our understanding of fear and emotion—and now the possibility of treating fearful memories. Natasha Mitchell visits his NYC studio to talk science, song, and his band, The Amygdaloids, where mind and brain take centre stage.